Phone-Hacking Trial: Brooks Testifies She Was Skeptical of Paper's Defense

By

Alexis Flynn

March 3, 2014 4:43 p.m. ET

LONDON—Former News Corp. executive Rebekah Brooks testified Monday that the company's long-running defense against phone-hacking claims began to seem "shaky" as evidence of the practice's pervasiveness at the News of the World tabloid emerged in 2009.

Ms. Brooks is fighting four charges relating to alleged illegal voice-mail interception, bribery of a public official and obstruction of a police investigation. She has pleaded...